Works

 

ARTIST

 

Jens Gussek

Gussek objects are both a serious and playful approach, both in substance and sculptural. In all striking is the tension, the exciting relationship between surfaces and solids: structure, texture and material. Gussek is playing with different materials like wood, metal, glass and color. His game with extremely different scales generated fantasy worlds has to jump between them or from one to the other one.

Education & Teaching (Selected)

1994-2010Assistant Professor and teaching for Glass Art and Painting, HKD Halle. DE
1986-1992University of Art & Design, Halle - Burg Giebichenstein


Awards / Grants (Selected)

1996DAAD-Grant, USA
2006Otto-Waldrich Prize, Cobourg Glass Prize, Coburg, DE 
Fellowship Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, USA


Exhibitions (Selected)

2001-2010Galerie Rossella Junck, Berlin, DE 
P4, Mannheim, DE 
Galerie Keller,Mannheim, DE  
Clara Scremini Gallery, Paris, FR 
Galerie B, Baden-Baden, DE 
Galerie Ferrho, Leipzig, DE 
2001-2010What´up in Halle, Galerie Seidel+Lorch, Berlin, DE  
Made in Germany II, Gallery New Glass Art & Photography, Berlin, DE Connections, Prague, CZ Rep. 
Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, München, DE  
Material Matters, Toronto, Canada 
Heller Gallery, New York, USA 
Museum of American Glass, Millville, USA 
Ernsting Foundation, Coesfeld, DE  
Wrexler Gallery, Philadelphia, USA 
The Visible Man, Glasmuseum Ebeltoft, DK 
Brandt Contemporary Glass, Torshalla, S 
Braggiotti Gallery, Amsterdam, NL


Collections (Selected)

Glass Museum Ebeltoft, DK 
Ernsting Stiftung, Coesfeld, DE  
Grassi-Museum, Leipzig, DE 
Musee du Verre, Sarspoteries, F 
Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, DE  
Brandt Contemporary Glass Museum, Torshalla, S 
Museum of American Glass, Millville, USA 
Museum of Modern Glass, Coburg, DE